savoir-vivre

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Familiarity with the customs of polite society.

Word forms

savoir-vivre

Etymology

Borrowed from French savoir-vivre, a nominalization of the verb phrase savoir vivre "to know how to live."

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